And you thought a Smart was a small car...
Gordon Murray has an incredible reputation as a race car designer. For the past few years he has been working on a very small world car as well as a streamlined production technique. It is unclear if it will ever be produced, but it is very small, very light and potentially inexpensive. It may even be interesting to drive given who designed it.
Dropping mass is a good thing if you want efficiency and this has the additional feature of a very novel three seat layout.
Recently photos and a bit more information were released.
It strikes me as very ugly, but is it ugly enough to be cute? The T.27 electric version might be interesting.
YES! Besides being small -- which is also great for city parking as well as energy conservation -- this car really gets style points.
Has anyone else noticed -- besides too much gas being used -- that a current look at the roads and parking loads is visually boring? SUVs may be gas hogs but they turn people into style sheep. There are too many look-alike vehicles of the same colors and most of them those old fashioned SUVs which have never had any more shape than an unmelted ice cube. Boring, boring, boring clunky, chunky boxes...
This little one is chunky, too, but unlike SUVs it does it with style and holds the eye. Now, to get some better colors on it! Black, white, silver, and red have been done to death on cars in the U.S. in the last 30 years. There are still some cars which look best in them, like silver on some aerodynamic shapes, but for the most part those colors are completely over-done and have become yet one more evidence of drivers acting like sheep, which is really very sad.
Maybe it is time to reinvent a late 1950s, early 1960s car color approach and have some two toned ones again? Let's demand a little color eye candy out there, too: yellows, turquoise, bright greens, more purples and blues if the fading problems have been solved, etc.
Right now everything about SUVs says, "Baaaaaaaaaaaaa".
Posted by: Sukie | July 02, 2010 at 13:45